Dear friends,

We believe that GCRI may now be at a turning point. Having established ourselves as leaders in the field of global catastrophic risk, we now seek to scale up the organization so that we can do correspondingly more to address global catastrophic risk. To that end, we have published detailed records of our accomplishments, plans for future work, and financial needs. An overview of this information is contained in our new blog post, Summary of GCRI’s 2018-2019 Accomplishments, Plans, and Fundraising.

To begin scaling up, we currently seek to raise $1.5 million. This would cover our leadership team (Tony Barrett, Robert de Neufville, and myself) for three years plus a modest discretionary budget to expand further. Anyone interested in contributing can do so via our donate page or by contacting me directly.

Sincerely,
Seth Baum, Executive Director

Events

Seth Baum gave two talks at the Envision conference at Princeton University: “The Social Science of Achieving Positive Long-Term AI Outcomes”, covering recent papers on social psychology and politicized debates about AI; and “Is Molecular Nanotechnology a Good Thing?”, covering a recent paper on the merits of future nanotechnology.

Publications

Seth Baum published a short article, Resilience to global catastrophe, for the International Risk Governance Center. The paper summarizes the state of knowledge on resilience to global catastrophe for the IRGC’s dual academic and policy audience.